Diverse Leaders
Arizona Latino Leaders in Education
Entrepreneur: Stephanie Parra
Nonprofit | Founded: 2019 | Visit the Site
ALL In Education exists to ensure that individuals from the communities most impacted by education inequities are the ones making decisions for ALL students. We seek to build an Arizona where no child is at risk of falling behind, where parents feel valued and supported and most importantly where ALL kids feel loved and honored in their classrooms.
Bernalillo Public Schools: Diverse Educator Fellowship
Entrepreneur: Matthew Montaño and Eric James
Nonprofit | Visit the Site
Bernalillo Public Schools seeks to reduce the barriers of entry and increase the long-term retention of Indigenous and Hispanic educators by offering a combination of financial, educational, and instructional support in their Diverse Educator Fellowship.
Black Educator Advocates Network
Entrepreneur: Jalisa Johnson
Nonprofit | Founded: 2019 | Visit the Site
The Black Educators Advocates Network exists to transform the environment, practices, and policies that affect the educational experience for Black educators, administrators, students, and parents. Founded by Black educators who recognized the desperate need for an educational experience that considers and centers around Black students, BEAN is committed to transforming the learning environment for students of color. BEAN centers its efforts around community building, research and discovery, and bold advocacy.
Bridge 2 Hope St. Louis
Entrepreneur: Krystal Barnett
Nonprofit | Founded: 2019 | Visit the Site
Bridge 2 Hope St. Louis is a parent-led organization with a mission to educate, empower and activate parents and grandparents to disrupt the system of inequity, fight unjust policies, and advocate for their children’s right to quality educational options. Bridge 2 Hope St. Louis empowers parents and their children through intentional outreach to the most vulnerable communities with a focus on on building strong communal relationships.
Brothers Liberating Our Communities: The Akoma Ntoso Fellowship
Entrepreneur: Cornell Ellis and Donta Goodwin
Nonprofit | Founded: 2020 | Visit the Site
Brothers Liberating Our Communities works to increase the number of Black Male Educators in schools. Through retention and sustainment strategies, BLOC hopes that all students will have access to dynamic Black men in the educational experience. The Akoma Ntoso Fellowship supports, trains. and retains early and mid-career Black male educators in Kansas City by curating safe, liberatory spaces.
Diversity in Leadership Institute
Entrepreneur: Laura J. McGowan-Robinson
Nonprofit | Founded: 2019 | Visit the Site
Diversity in Leadership Institute’s mission is to create equitable outcomes for Black and Latinx students by building a movement of racially diverse and culturally responsive public education leaders. Their vision is that leaders in Californian public schools will reflect and honor the diversity of the communities they serve and achieve equity for Black and Latinx students. Diversity in Leadership Institute identifies, cultivates, and activates Black and Latinx leaders and allies to serve as change agents, to close the achievement and opportunity gaps for children of color, through growing talent pipelines for excellent school leadership and advocacy. The DILI vision is to build and accelerate strong school leaders and advocates of color, to create equitable K-12 school systems in the state of California, ultimately improving the academic, social and emotional well-being for youth of color.
Diversity Talks
Entrepreneur: Kiara Butler
For-profit | Founded: 2017 | Visit the Site
Diversity Talks shifts mindsets by partnering with organizations to create unique learning environments where the most marginalized voices are at the forefront. Our mission is to increase cultural competency by fostering a healing space for those in power and those most marginalized to challenge the societal standards upholding white supremacy. We envision an anti-racist society of shared responsibility, with everyone collectively working to create systemic change.
Educators for Excellence: 2023 Voices From the Classroom
Entrepreneur: Evan Stone and Sydney Morris
Nonprofit | Founded: 2019 | Visit the Site
Founded by public school teachers, Educators for Excellence is a growing movement of more than 30,000 educators, united around a common set of values and principles for improving student learning and elevating the teaching profession. We work together to identify issues that impact our schools, create solutions to these challenges, and advocate for policies and programs that give all students access to a quality education. The 2023 Voices from the Classroom survey is a comprehensive national survey of public school teachers and is designed by teachers to capture crucial insight on the views of public school teachers on a wide variety of issues impacting students and the teaching profession.
ForwardEd
Entrepreneur: Mirla Urzua
For-profit | Founded: 2021 | Visit the Site
ForwardEd creatively expands and diversifies the teacher candidate pipeline for Los Angeles schools by assisting emergency credentialed teachers and the school-based teams that support them to ensure teachers reach the next credentialing level needed to become fully certified.
Georgia Educators for Equity and Justice
Entrepreneur: Aireane Montgomery
Nonprofit | Founded: 2021 | Visit the Site
Georgia Educators for Equity and Justice Incorporated is a professional organization which champions the liberation and belonging of Black educators, students, and educational stakeholders. We endeavor to extend resources and guidance in a variety of areas including, but not limited to: advocacy, charitable purposes, civic engagement and responsibility, professional development, as well as recruitment and retention.
Innovation for Equity
Entrepreneur: Angela Romans
Nonprofit | Founded: 2018 | Visit the Site
Innovation For Equity (IFE) is a network of Black changemakers across the education ecosystem – leaders in PK-12, postsecondary, research, technology, and business – committed to disrupting the status quo and transforming the life outcomes of Black learners of all ages. By connecting and cultivating Black leaders in education to build collective power and scale innovative solutions, IFE reimagines a future where Black learners thrive across the nation.
Institute for Student Achievement
Entrepreneur: Ebony Green
Nonprofit | Founded: 2021 | Visit the Site
For nearly 30 years, the Institute for Student Achievement (ISA) has partnered with schools and districts to transform schools so that students who are traditionally underserved and underperforming graduate prepared for success in college and careers.
Women of Color Education Collaborative (WOCEC)
ISA is launching WOCEC as a response to the effects that both the events of the last year that brought racial equity to the forefront and the pandemic have had on education and educational leaders. The goal of WOCEC is to create a network of thriving women of color superintendents by supporting leaders with a program designed to enhance their leadership skills and capacity while also focusing on healing and building strong bonds between participants. This is a unique opportunity to care for yourself while leaning into your strengths as a leader. We will focus on building upon existing strengths and capabilities to increase your ability to be strategic about the work to advance equity.International Teachers Project
Entrepreneur: Victor Capellan
Nonprofit | Founded: 2022
The International Teacher Project (ITP) will partner with and place Latin American teachers in American classrooms through the J-1 Visa program. The ITP will prepare and support Spanish-speaking international teachers to succeed in American classrooms for 3 to 5 years through a rigorous selection process, a robust training program, and a network of professional services.
KConnect: Future Educators of Color Network
Entrepreneur: Salvador Lopez and Maegan Frierson
Nonprofit | Founded: 2022 | Visit the Site
KConnect is a network of public and private organizations working to advance a collective movement aimed at ensuring all children in Kent County have an equitable path to economic prosperity through quality education, family, and community support. KConnect’s Future Educators of Color Network will create equitable pathways for children to access quality education and community support by developing a new coalition addressing the deep need for diverse teachers within Kent County, MI.
LatinxED
Entrepreneur: Elaine Utin and Ricky Hurtado
Nonprofit | Founded: 2018 | Visit the Site
LatinxEd is an education non-profit committed to investing in Latinx leadership and creating learning environments that expand educational equity and opportunity in North Carolina. Our works calls on our community to reimagine and redesign what equitable, inclusive learning environments and experiences could look like that truly recognize, honor, and serve the diverse needs of the Latinx immigrant community in North Carolina.
Lead Co/laborative
Entrepreneur: Lorraine Lago and Maria Christian
Nonprofit | Founded: 2019 | Visit the Site
Lead Co/laborative incubates Puerto Rico’s next-generation of diverse educational champions with one central aim in mind — to prepare students for a lifetime of learning and opportunity. The Lead Co/laborative team looks to achieve this mission by equipping educational leaders with the tools needed to transform educational experiences and improve student outcomes.
Leadership for Liberation
Entrepreneur: Daneen Keaton
Nonprofit | Visit the Site
Leadership for Liberation supports principals, particularly principals of color, in creating anti-racist school cultures that disrupt of racial oppression from the individual- to the systems-level.
Man Up Teacher Fellowship
Entrepreneur: Patrick Washington
Nonprofit | Founded: 2018 | Visit the Site
Man Up Teacher Fellowship is a non-profit organization with the mission to give students in high poverty, urban and rural communities, particularly male students of color, access to high quality male teachers of color and to advance policies that promote equity in K – 12 schools. Man Up will provide fellows with opportunities to obtain licensure, earn a Master’s of Education, and become certified in Educational Leadership by creating a state approved teacher education preparation program that will provide tailored teacher education and targeted wraparound supports to Black male educators.
Men of Color in Educational Leadership (MCEL)
Entrepreneur: Harrison Peters
Nonprofit | Founded: 2022 | Visit the Site
Men of Color in Education Leadership (MCEL), an organization of leaders from across the educational spectrum, is hyper-focused on eliminating achievement and opportunity gaps for all students. Based on research and lived experiences, MCEL strongly supports highly effective leaders of color who are uniquely positioned to disrupt current ecosystems, lead equity throughout education, and serve as critical levers to student success.
MindshiftED
Entrepreneur: Joe Cantu and Maribel Gardea
Nonprofit | Founded: 2019
Our vision is for San Antonio to have the best schools in the world. Our mission is to give the community the tools and knowledge they need to demand a high-quality education. We do that by training parents how to use their voice and collective power to band together and demand change in the public education system. We hope that, through our work, educated and skilled parents will be able to demand an excellent education and pass this on to their children. By doing this, we plan to stop the cycle of unknowing and complacency, so parents demand an education system that serves their children excellently and equitably.